GRE Word List
AVOCATION
a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby
The meaning of the word avocation is a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| convention | agreement |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |